Compete PH21 @ Barcelona – A.I.: Celebrating Photographic Diversity
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: October 21, 2024 – PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a group exhibition themed From Heliography to AI: Celebrating Photographic Diversity.
We are seeking submissions from all photographers who are interested in photographic genre and style traditions and would like to share their work with a wider international audience through the exposure of PH21 Gallery. This exhibition is designed to celebrate photographic diversity.
VENUE
Please note that this PH21 Gallery exhibition will be presented in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.
In the spacious Valid World Hall Gallery in Barcelona, we intend to devote separate sections to 19th-century alternative processes, straight photography (including traditional landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, etc.), photographs capturing the “decisive moment” (including street photography and other images capturing fleeting moments in any captivating situation), staged photography (including both conceptually driven staged art photography as well as still life, and other staged genres), and experimental photography (including photomontages, double exposures, lomography, photographic glitch art, AI-generated photo-based images, abstract photography, etc.). In your submission, please indicate the section you think your work fits best or let us know if it belongs to another category.
Exhibition dates: December 9–19, 2024.
ELIGIBILITY
All photographers 18 years or older worldwide may enter the competition by submitting their own, original work. The theme is broadly defined; we welcome submissions from all photographic genres and styles, including abstract compositions. We are interested in all possible creative interpretations of photographic genres and styles.
CURATORS
Zsolt Bátori is a philosopher of art and photographer. He is an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and at Kodolányi János University, where he currently serves as Head of the Research Centre for Art and Creative Industries. He visits the University of Murcia in Spain for regular research collaborations. He has conducted research and taught philosophy of art and photography courses at various universities in Hungary, the United States, Spain and Argentina, and has exhibited his photographic work internationally. Zsolt is also the founder and director of PH21 Gallery.
Borbála Jász is an art historian and a philosopher of art. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and as an assistant professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is responsible for the operations of our new Project Room at Ráday 52, and she also works with our social media accounts and website.
BENEFITS & AWARDS
One curator’s choice and up to three honourable mentions will be announced. The juror’s choice receives three free entries for any upcoming themed group exhibition calls at PH21 Gallery. (Each free entry includes up to 15 images.)
PH21 Gallery archives all photography exhibitions electronically, allowing us to promote our exhibiting photographers to curators, collectors as well as the viewing public. Our website also functions as a virtual gallery site, and all photographs included in our exhibitions are published on the dedicated page of the exhibition.
ENTRY FEES (see details)
Early bird deadline: October 14, 2024
Final deadline: October 21, 2024
There is a special rate for maximum 5 images for students and unwaged persons as well as for applicants from low-income economies.
SUBMISSION
Visit PH21 Gallery online for complete details and to Apply.
All entrants will be notified 10-15 days after the deadline.
FLAT FILE & SALES
Exhibition prints will be kept on file for six months for future promotion unless the photographer prefers some other arrangement.
In case of a sale inquiry the photographer will be promptly contacted. PH21 Gallery commission is 25%. (Submitted photographs, however, do not have to be for sale, and exhibition prints will never be sold; they are for exhibition and promotion purposes only.)
About:
PH21 Gallery is a contemporary exhibition space established in 2012 in Budapest, Hungary. The mission of the gallery is to provide group and solo exhibition opportunities and international exposure for contemporary photographers around the world.
PH21 Gallery
55 Ráday St.
Budapest
H-1092
Valid World Hall Gallery
Carrer de Buenaventura Muñoz, 6,
Ciutat Vella, 08018
Barcelona, Spain